Tui Singing at Sunrise

[suziQyooot]

I want to be a tui my next life! 

[suziQyooot]

i love you tui!

[vjm3]

Scary as hell. It reminds me of something The Grifter would say.

[johnboy384]

Yay, I love this place and my favorite bird.

[uretitibeach]

I agree, this is the best vid I have seen... don't like the ones where they are in captivaty... 

[thedirtydeltas]

that was best i;ve seen so far.

[Daibhidh646]

R2D2 has a new friend. I'd love to see a video with R2D2 talking to a tui.

[zootybeano]

Go in February. It rains a LOT.

[deepforestmagic]

Wonderful to get a piecce of paradise from New Zeeland... I've always longed to go there! Someday I will! Sun warm hugs from Nenne in Sweden

[Xenostrobe]

What was that R2?

[LOVEcanheal]

I have this same wattletree, and have the pleasure of having a guest.....Napier, Tuis been here since May each morning, still out on the tree now

[sandrateager]

Ahh What a melodious song!!!

[FluffnRipples]

Cool!

Its so funny to hear some of the noises that it comes out with! :D

[Kiwihardcore121]

Best Thing in the morning to listen to when you are in Oz But wanting a bit of home

[Waitakeredame]

How awful that someone should shoot a Minah bird because it could sound like a telephone. :-(

[MacStan007]

Could you possibly tell me where in Nz this recording was made? As part of a science fair project, we are studying the Tui calls from different regions. Thanks.

[zootybeano]

Ruakaka, Northland, July 1, 2007, sunrise. Not too hard with all the other YouTube Tuis now. Nice to be done with kids science fairs from my end. Good Luck.

[Bigfamiliesmorefun]

Yay! you finally did it! brilliant footage of such a shy creature, lol.

[zootybeano]

Thanks Darlin' Nice sound but too dark for video. Paddy would have loved it though, was on Gary's "dick" a few days after she died. (In Kiwi language a deck is a dick, a truck is a track, a track is a trek, and a trek is a treek.????) "The more he tried to get it free the louder buzzed the telephee"

[Bigfamiliesmorefun]

A neighbour of ours had a Minor in his gardin. Every morning at 7am he went out to wait for the van to arrive to collect him for work....... the phone would ring!!! He'd rush back to the house, answer the phone, no one there! Back to the road, the van would arrive, and the phone would ring again! Then one morning he spotted it!! Blerrie Minor bird making a noise like a ringing telephone. BOOF!!! when the gun!! DOWN came the feathers!!!

[k6yardotcom]

Nice...